On Mon, 20 Feb 1995 18:14:13 -0500 John Buckman said: >* There would be no way to control whether the user of "InfoMagnet LM" (list >manager) actually is a list manager (though I could control who gets the >software). If they were a list manager, it would be hard to control that >person from mucking with other lists. I would certainly not be in favor of this! >Unless, of course, I customize each >copy for the lists that person is allowed to use--or create serial #s that >we give out for each list they are allowed to manage. You would need to set your list(s) to Validate= Yes and then let LISTSERV do the verification. Authenticating micro-based email systems is a pita. >* How would users react to having things done on their behalf? I could have >InfoMagnet LM send the user a message saying "Jane Listmanager used your >email address to set your subscription to digests" or something... that >might help. List Owners can already do this and LISTSERV sends out the appropriate note (unless QUIET is used). >Because InfoMagnet is activated by a serial #, I could also have the serial ># and info about that serial #s usage sent to >[log in to unmask] to try and track InfoMagnet LM >abuse. But then...that raises sticky privacy issues for list managers. Have Eric add a List Header field: InfoMagnet-ID= ###### then verify against that. >Now, how about a window with a list of users, and buttons such as >"subscribe, signoff, search, settings" for that window. You could >control-click on a dozen users and act on them all at once. Well, I wouldn't use it (I'm a command-line kinda guy) but others may find a GUI interface easier (I know my boos would, but he wants it on a Mac). >BTW - the output from "review" would have to be periodically pasted into the >software to make this work. As the List Owner it would be better to use the output from a "get listname (nolock" so you also have the concealed users. Heck, then you could even interpret columns 80+ and give a window of who is set to conceal, mail, digest, topic, etc. Jim...